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||1898: "Soapy" Smith dies in shootout ... con artist and gangster in the Old West. His most famous scam, the prize package soap sell racket, earned him the sobriquet of "Soapy", which remained with him to his death. Although he traveled and operated his confidence swindles all across the western United States, he is most famous for having a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. Pic. | ||1898: "Soapy" Smith dies in shootout ... con artist and gangster in the Old West. His most famous scam, the prize package soap sell racket, earned him the sobriquet of "Soapy", which remained with him to his death. Although he traveled and operated his confidence swindles all across the western United States, he is most famous for having a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. Pic. | ||
||1904: Henri Cartan born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1904: Henri Cartan born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1905: Leonid Amalrik born ... animator and director. | ||1905: Leonid Amalrik born ... animator and director. | ||
||1906: Philip Johnson born ... architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place. | ||1906: Philip Johnson born ... architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place. Pic. | ||
||1915: Kenneth O. May born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics, who developed May's theorem. Pic: https://www.mathunion.org/ichm/about-us/brief-history-international-commission-history-mathematics-ichm | ||1915: Kenneth O. May born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics, who developed May's theorem. Pic: https://www.mathunion.org/ichm/about-us/brief-history-international-commission-history-mathematics-ichm | ||
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||1918: Julia Pirie born ... British spy working for MI5. | ||1918: Julia Pirie born ... British spy working for MI5. | ||
||1934: Benjamin Baillaud dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||1934: Benjamin Baillaud dies ... astronomer and academic. Baillaud was active in time standardisation, becoming the founding president of the International Time Bureau and initiating the transmission of a time signal from the Eiffel Tower. Baillaud maintained the observatory and the time signal throughout World War I. Pic. | ||
Roswell_Daily_Record_July_9_1947.jpg|link=Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|1947: The [[Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|Roswell UFO incident]], the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico. | Roswell_Daily_Record_July_9_1947.jpg|link=Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|1947: The [[Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|Roswell UFO incident]], the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico. | ||
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1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.
1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter Anna Morandi Manzolini publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent Organic golem generation.
1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
1948: Janet Beta at ENIAC "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.
1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.